That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 13, 2019

Wilhelm got such a thrill from disturbing the sleep of the townsfolk, that he coined the word schadenfreude to describe how he felt.

“Clap on, clap off; the Clapper!”

“If I can’t sleep, nobody sleeps!”

Avon calling.

Until his probation is over Glenn is only a quasi-bellringer…

“Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”

Percussionist in a VERY, heavy metal band !

We only have one cowbell, Mr. Walken.

While it is very prestigious working with the symphony, there just aren’t that many pieces calling for the dulcet tones of an 8-ton bell.

Glen fancies himself a musician – he has been practicing to play Wagner. “Flight of the Valkyrie” on church bell was just divine.

By the time salesmen finished ringing the count’s doorbell, they were too tired to give their pitch.

Now all I need is a hump on my back.

Glenn realizes that losing 53 pounds has made his job a lot tougher.

“You will reach new heights in the business”, they said, “your work will reverberate for miles!” . …I should have read the fine print.

glenn couldn’t care less about the way his co-workers joked about his cossack getup…

Script ideas that didn’t make it. Bing Bong; a giant bell captured in a desert steeple, escapes in modern New York wreaking havoc and destruction.

“Hmmmm. I have the bell,and I have the candle….. now all I need is the book”

“Now where the hell is that ‘Man of La Mancha’ guy.. he’s not up here.. I’ll check the basement.”

Each dawn, as he painfully climbs/ to his task, of ringing the chimes/ poor old Quasimodo/ thinks “Ain’t I a dodo ?/ I’m workin’ for nickels and dimes…” (and NO health plan !)

Twice as big and no cracks! Take that Amerikaner swine!

How could he possibly set his own hours? He’s got an hour of downtime after each ringing though, so there is that.

“Ding dong the witch is dead”!

I can’t think of his name, but his face rings a bell.

The Liberty Bell before they hired Mr. Magoo.

Turn it up to 11.

“Anita Ward – the early years” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFUC2ISCoc

Take that Chuck Berry! It may not be little bells on a string but you can’t beat my ding-a-ling!

The bells are ringing, for me and my babushka!

He could set his own hours… I’ll ring the bell for 5 PM when I damn well please!

" The scene was in the jailhouse

And if curfew rang that night

Nell’s Dad in number 13 cell

would go out like a light.

.

She knew her Dad was innocent

so plucky little Nell

she tied her tender torso

to the clapper of the bell…"

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Hang On The Bell, Nellie ( and no matter when the curfew rings/ we’re gonna swing, tonight! )

The Bellman: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Glockenwart_1877.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. I know, bellman means something different in 2019 than it did in 1887; definitions change with time. So far, 36 works with unknown attribution have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/07/23?comments=visible 

has the prior strip.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2285 (September 12, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Percussionist for the band Disaster Area.

Bob wasn’t about to let his four years studying French Horn at Julliard go to waste.

the bell doctor, dr. jungle ,was working on bell hemorrhoids, hoping the bell didn’t have pain.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky trying out the bells to go with his cannons.

If I had a bell I’d ring it in the morning.

He was the “bell of the ball” – but the ball was on the 14th floor.

Alarm clock for the hard-of-hearing.